Loved the title of this thread! LOL!!

Looks like maybe you had one or two anyway - we always need pots, eh? Sure as I get rid of a stack, I'll come along with something else that would have fit perfectly in the one I just got rid of.

I need to get into the garage and clean up the mess I've started in there. They are sure to be full of brown widows. I have plants in pots throughout the fall-spring and put them away for summer so I don't have to deal with them if the wind blows.

I'm so glad to see there are other with OCP (obsessive collection of pots)!
When I moved four months ago, the movers took one load of furntiure and then went back for a full load of pots! I think there were about 80-100 - no joke. I dug up a lot of stuff to move and had always had loads of container plants.
Anyhow, most of everything is in the ground now, so, since I don't plan of moving again anytime soon, you might think I'd throw away the pots?
Oh, no, they are piled up in my work area beside the garage, making nice homes for bugs, mosquitos and other assorted Florida wonders. Every so often, I move them about, arranging by size, color, etc and I just know I will find uses for all of them!! As ladywingr said, you throw away the one you will need.
Isn't gardening fun? Those that don't know the joy of it would truly think we were a bid odd to be obsessing about pots!

I just threw a bunch of my ugliest pots away last week. They have holes in the bottom, but they seem to collect mosquito breeding water anyway. I found tons of spiders and frogs and toads in them. I sprayed the nice ones down and stored the unused ones upside down this time.

I have long understood that I am a plant/gardening hoarder. I display the same kind of behaviors I see on those shows. But I think garden hoarding is a far prettier and nicer form of hoarding than junk hoarding or, heaven forbid, animal hoarding. The worst that can happen is I get overwhelmed and the plants die and get composted:)

LOL! I thought we were getting some tips on something else! I have this problem, too. I took 2 beat-up large garbage cans and stacked them full of pots - I keep them out in my messy garden area next to the compost. But, I keep getting more and more. I had it in my mind that I was going to become some kind of home nursery wizard, starting and raising all kinds of cuttings, etc. and guess what?? AND I have experienced the dreaded scurry of PALMETTO BUGS - HUGE ONES when I've gone in to get a pot. But keeping them in the garbage cans does kind of hide them and keep them from collecting water.

It's nice to see I'm not the only one. I found that the worst of the insects were in pots that fit nicely together and had dirt residue on them. I had emptied out the dirt but didn't rinse them out. I have heard that roaches breed big time. There had to be a thousand in each pot. I also saw one in a bag of dirt that I stored in the garage. So I wonder if they want the dirt to lay their eggs/young? I also put mine in upside down this time since the mosquitos have been so bad lately.

I used to store mine in a lidded garbage can outside.

UNTIL....

I found out there was a small hole in the bottom. How I discovered the hole was when I lifted out a pot and the pots below started moving. Rat family had moved in - momma and three babies. They were relocated and I dumped the rest of the pots out.

Then, I found that the reason there were only three babies. There was also a red rat snake living in amongst the upper pots.

The can was destroyed and my garbage can storage system ceased.

Terri

I have a small, rigid pond liner that I fill with water and bleach that I 'sanitize' my pots in each spring. Then just stack them upside down in the garage. So far, bug and vermin populations are neglegible. Primary reason for the bleach is to kill any fungus or diseases that might cling to pots that I've bought, picked off the curb or been given. And yes, I have to get rid of some of them almost every year.
cora

Every so often, I move them about, arranging by size, color, etc and I just know I will find uses for all of them!!

Hehe. I do the same :)
I have been purging some of the collection recently, either throwing them away or putting them in recycle if applicable ...but for the most part, bigger nicer pots get to stay and are stashed away in the shed.
And then, every so often, they get moved around, rearranged and reexamined... :)

Terri, yuck. I can live with snakes but not rats. They can chew through anything so I guess that is what happened.
Cora, that sounds like a good idea.
Nancy

There is always a perfectly logical reason to hoard pots, after all, we did pay for them they were not free, also some are fairly rare and may never come along again, ie; collector's item .... and most surely we will desperately need them 'some day'... so there folks, are very valid reasons ( not excuses ) to hang onto all (every last one ) of those dirty decrepit banged-up beat-up dented dinged dismal relics of long-dead, just-have-to-have-it, half-dead, one-leaf-left, bargain- bin plant... never did know the name of it anyway but just couldn't pass it up !! I'm on your side.... really...............sally

Well put Sally. I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

Love your observations Sally - very well said!

Thanx folks, I felt so much better when I saw Nancy's pot-stash.... now I know I am not the only one with a stack of messy pots, I save every last one of them also I keep those stupid trays from HD and Lowe's that 18 small plants come in... by the way they are handy for setting on weeds to kill the weed, my garden has those trays all over the place.... when my son comes over he gets this 'look' and mutters something abt. 'cleaning up the yard' I just pretend I don't hear him and go inside..... it's too hot out there anyway...... sally

I forgot to mention that I put the old ugly pots out with the trash. I was worried the trash collectors wouldn't take them because they weren't in bags or anything. Well, I worried needlessly because they dissapeared before trash collection time! Someone actually wanted them. There are many sick individuals with this pot hoarding problem:)

Well, amberroses, if you find you need any replacements for the pots you so judiciously jettisoned, just give me a call.... waste-not want-not.... ha ha... LOL.... sally

I swear I really do know how to spell, the word "disappear" at least. There is a finger/brain disconnect in my posts:(

Age knows no barriers, that's what I love about Sally, she's always will to share her pot(s) ;-)

LOL!!This is too much fun! Sally, tell your son that I'll take those (stupid) trays because I use them every spring when I start herbs for sale at our annual neighborhood yard sale. Don't need those flimsy little containers, tho' because I make newspaper pots that you just put in the ground with the plant.

Amberoses, I'm probably the one who took those pots from your recycle bin. I wonder if there's a support group for those of us with OCP?
cora

Corar I think the support group is a great idea. We could combine it with a pot swap.
Nancy

Very funny post here. Thank you all for making me laugh.
Sharon